# US 9,517,659 B2 · Heavy duty tire

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- Number: US 9,517,659 B2
- Document ID: US9517659B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 14/397,700
- Filed: 2013-04-18
- Published: 2015-03-26
- Granted: 2016-12-13
- Earliest claimed: 2012-05-11
- Assignees: Bridgestone Corporation
- Applicants: Bridgestone Corporation
- Inventors: Yasutaka Suda; Yusuke Yoshikawa; Shinya Yamamoto
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9517659B2

## CPC

- B60C 9/1835: {Rubber strips or cushions at the belt edges}
- B60C 9/18: Structure or arrangement of belts or breakers, crown-reinforcing or cushioning layers
- B60C 9/185: {between adjacent or radially below the belt plies}
- B60C 9/20: built-up from rubberised plies each having all cords arranged substantially parallel
- B60C 2001/0075: {Compositions of belt cushioning layers}
- B60C 2009/1842: {Width or thickness of the strips or cushions}
- B60C 2009/2064: {Modulus; Hardness; Loss modulus or "tangens delta"}
- B60C 2200/06: for heavy duty vehicles
- B60C: VEHICLE TYRES; TYRE INFLATION; TYRE CHANGING; CONNECTING VALVES TO INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIES IN GENERAL; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES

## Abstract

The present invention provides a heavy duty tire, comprising: a carcass; a belt constituted of a circumferential belt including at least one circumferential belt layer and a slant belt including at least one slanted belt layer, each belt layer being made of cords coated with belt coating rubber; and a cushion rubber provided on the outer side in the tire width direction of the belt layers, characterized in that: the cushion rubber has a belt adjacent portion adjacent to the belt and a main body portion adjacent to the belt adjacent portion; and provided that E1′, E2′ and E3′ represent storage modulus values of the belt adjacent portion of the cushion rubber, the main body portion of the cushion rubber, and the belt coating rubber, respectively, E1′, E2′ and E3′ satisfy relationship E2′<E1′≦E3′.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A heavy duty tire, comprising:
a carcass provided in a toroidal shape across a pair of bead portions;
a belt provided on the outer side in the tire radial direction of a crown portion of the carcass and constituted of a plurality of belt layers each made of cords coated with belt coating rubber;
a circumferential belt and a slant belt constituting the belt, the circumferential belt including at least one circumferential belt layer made of cords extending in the tire circumferential direction, the slant belt being provided on the outer side in the tire radial direction of the circumferential belt and including at least one slanted belt layer made of cords extending to be inclined with respect to the tire circumferential direction; and
a cushion rubber provided between the carcass and a belt layer having the largest width in the tire width direction among the plurality of belt layers and in a region on the outer side in the tread width direction of the belt layers positioned on the inner side in the tire radial direction than the belt layer having the largest width, characterized in that:
the cushion rubber has a belt adjacent portion and a main body portion, the belt adjacent portion being adjacent to end portions on the outer side in the tire width direction of the belt layers positioned on the inner side in the tire radial direction than the belt layer having the largest width, the main body portion being provided to be adjacent to the belt adjacent portion and extend on the inner side in the tire radial direction along the carcass; and
provided that E1′, E2′ and E3′ represent storage modulus values of the belt adjacent portion of the cushion rubber, the main body portion of the cushion rubber, and the belt coating rubber, respectively, E1′, E2′ and E3′ satisfy following relationship,
E2′<E1′≦E3′,
wherein the storage modulus values are measured according to the standards of JIS K 6394 (testing methods of dynamic properties for vulcanized rubber and thermoplastic rubber) under conditions of dynamic strain: 2% and the room temperature.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The heavy duty tire of claim 1, wherein the main body portion of the cushion rubber has loss tangent tan δ2 in the range of 0.01<tan δ2<0.2 and storage modulus E2′ (MPa) in the range of 1<E2′<15 and the loss tangent is measured according to the standards of JIS K 6394 under conditions of dynamic strain: 2% and the room temperature.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The heavy duty tire of claim 1, wherein the belt adjacent portion is provided such that the shortest distance between the outermost end in the tire width direction of the slanted belt layer having the largest width and the main body portion of the cushion rubber is equal to or larger than 1 mm and the shortest distance between the outermost end in the tire width direction of the circumferential belt and the main body portion of the cushion rubber is equal to or larger than 2.5 mm.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The heavy duty tire of claim 1, wherein widths in the tire width direction of the slanted belt layers are 30% to 120% of widths in the tire width direction of the circumferential belt layers.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The heavy duty tire of claim 1, wherein tire aspect ratio is 70% or less.